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12 More Essential Skills for Software Architects
Master The Crucial Technical Skills Every Software Architect Needs! To succeed as a software architect, you must master both technical skills and soft skills. Dave Hendricksen illuminated the soft skills in his highly-regarded 12 Essential Skills for Software Architects . Now, in 12 More Essential Skills for Software Architects he turns to the technical side. Drawing on his decades of experience, Hendricksen organizes technical skills into three areas. PROJECT driving projects from ideation through delivery
TECHNOLOGY building, buying, and/or leveraging the right technologies
VISIONARY realizing an architectural vision that improves long-term competitiveness He helps you develop and sharpen these key technical from conceptualizing solutions to developing platforms and governance, and from selecting technology innovations to infusing architectures with an entrepreneurial spirit. This guide reveals the technical skills you need and provides a coherent framework and practical methodology for mastering them. Taken together, Hendricksen’s two books offer the most complete, practical pathway to excellence in software architecture. They’ll guide you through every step of your architecture career—from getting the right position to thriving once you have it. Essential Architect Skills Visionary Skills
Entrepreneurial Execution
Technology Innovation
Strategic Roadmapping Technology Skills
Governance
Platform Development
Know-how
Architectural Perspective Project Skills
Estimation
Partnership
Discovery
Management
Conceptualization Dave Hendricksen is a big data architect for Thomson Reuters, where he works closely with the firm’s new product development teams to create innovative legal products for large-scale online platforms such as Westlaw.com. Hendricksen presented “Designing and Building Large-Scale Systems in an Agile World” at Carnegie Mellon University’s influential Software Engineering Institute.
TECHNOLOGY building, buying, and/or leveraging the right technologies
VISIONARY realizing an architectural vision that improves long-term competitiveness He helps you develop and sharpen these key technical from conceptualizing solutions to developing platforms and governance, and from selecting technology innovations to infusing architectures with an entrepreneurial spirit. This guide reveals the technical skills you need and provides a coherent framework and practical methodology for mastering them. Taken together, Hendricksen’s two books offer the most complete, practical pathway to excellence in software architecture. They’ll guide you through every step of your architecture career—from getting the right position to thriving once you have it. Essential Architect Skills Visionary Skills
Entrepreneurial Execution
Technology Innovation
Strategic Roadmapping Technology Skills
Governance
Platform Development
Know-how
Architectural Perspective Project Skills
Estimation
Partnership
Discovery
Management
Conceptualization Dave Hendricksen is a big data architect for Thomson Reuters, where he works closely with the firm’s new product development teams to create innovative legal products for large-scale online platforms such as Westlaw.com. Hendricksen presented “Designing and Building Large-Scale Systems in an Agile World” at Carnegie Mellon University’s influential Software Engineering Institute.
336 pages, Paperback
First published February 15, 2014
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November 11, 2020
Don't waste your money, garbage info here, nothing insightful just empty words from a has been from a bygone era.
December 22, 2014
This is the kind of book that, once you have discovered it, you wish you had read earlier in your career before you made the mistakes that taught you these lessons the hard way!
It is full of very practical and a fairly comprehensive set of guidelines that every software architect should learn as quickly as they can and apply immediately. These span not only technical topics such as design and modeling techniques but also, and very importantly, the soft skills architects need to be successful.
These are the skills without which all the technical knowledge in the world will do you no good. Being able to form productive relationships in every direction and solid social and communication skills top this list for me.
I found the author's willingness to compromise technical guidance under the weight of political pressure more than I would be comfortable with; but this is a matter of degree and something we must all discover for ourselves.
The book is well-priced and worth the cost, so buy it if you are a wanna-be software architect or maybe someone who has been thrown into this role and wants guidance. Follow the advice in this book and you will certainly do better at this challenging role.
Reviewed by Adrian M. Rossi PhD, CTO & Founder ARC Inc.
It is full of very practical and a fairly comprehensive set of guidelines that every software architect should learn as quickly as they can and apply immediately. These span not only technical topics such as design and modeling techniques but also, and very importantly, the soft skills architects need to be successful.
These are the skills without which all the technical knowledge in the world will do you no good. Being able to form productive relationships in every direction and solid social and communication skills top this list for me.
I found the author's willingness to compromise technical guidance under the weight of political pressure more than I would be comfortable with; but this is a matter of degree and something we must all discover for ourselves.
The book is well-priced and worth the cost, so buy it if you are a wanna-be software architect or maybe someone who has been thrown into this role and wants guidance. Follow the advice in this book and you will certainly do better at this challenging role.
Reviewed by Adrian M. Rossi PhD, CTO & Founder ARC Inc.
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